In Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, the Somali civil war from 1991 until the new government was elected into office in November 2011 has left the country with many internally displaced persons (IDPs) and weakened infrastructure. But the children of Mogadishu are resourceful. Children make kites from discarded plastic bags. Even the ‘string’ is made from plastic bags knotted together.
MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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